There was a woman in one of my congregations that lived almost to her 100th birthday. She once told me that in 1905, when she was a little girl, her family traveled by covered wagon from, I believe, Missouri to the Pacific Northwest. It was amazing to me to listen to someone speak first-hand about such an experience, one that seemed to me relegated only to novels, movies, and history books.
My day yesterday would have been incomprehensible to those people. I traveled from Florida to California in four and a half hours. Looking down from the airplane at some of the rough terrain, I can't even begin to imagine the courage and strength it took for explorers and pioneers to travel through those places so long ago.
Life has evolved in many phenomenal ways. Changes have been astounding and seemingly unpredictable in their effects on us.
Yet, despite our advances, we still struggle with basic spiritual weaknesses and needs. We still are not capable of coping entirely on our own.
The witness of scripture is that God is the same, "yesterday, today, and tomorrow."